Yu Youren

Yu Youren

Yu Youren (1879.04.11-1964.11.10), Han nationality, was born in Sanyuan, Shaanxi Province. His ancestral home is Doukou village, Jingyang. He is a modern Chinese politician, educator and calligrapher. Its original name was Boxun, and its word was alluring. Later, it was named "alluring" with the homonym of "Youren"; it was also named "saoxin" and "ranweng", and it was named "Taiping old man" in his later years.

Yu Youren was a member of the alliance in his early years. He served as a senior official in the national government for many years. He was also a calligrapher in modern China. He was the founder of Fudan University, Shanghai University, national northwest agriculture and Forestry College (now northwest agriculture and Forestry University) and the director of Fudan University and private Nantong University.

Life of the characters

In 1879 (the fifth year of qingguangxu), Yu Youren was born in Dongguan River Lane, Sanyuan County, Shaanxi Province.

In 1895 (the 21st year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty), he was admitted to the county school with the first grade and became a scholar.

In 1897 (the 23rd year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty), he continued to study in Sanyuan Hongdao academy, Jingyang Weijing academy and Xi'an Guanzhong academy, and was taught by Liu Guyu. Together with Wu Mi and Zhang jiluan, he was known as "Guanxue".

In 1898 (the 24th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty), he took part in the year-old examination and took the first place in the examination. He was praised as the "Northwest genius" by Ye Erkai, the governor of Shaanxi Province.

In 1900 (the 26th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty), the Eight Allied forces captured Beijing. Cixi and Emperor Guangxu fled to Xi'an to take part in the "kneeling welcome" and wrote a poem, which was self compiled into "half crying and half laughing poems" and printed in Sanyuan in the winter of 1903.

In 1904 (the thirtieth year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty), the Qing government ordered Yu Youren to be dealt with. Yu fled Kaifeng and went to Shanghai under the pseudonym of Liu Xueyu to study in the Sinian college founded by Ma Xiangbo.

In 1905 (the thirty first year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty), Yu Youren paid for the relationship and employed Ma Xiangbo, ye Zhongyu, Shao Lizi and others to jointly organize Fudan public school (now Fudan University), and the Mid Autumn Festival officially opened.

In April 1906 (the 32nd year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty), Yu Youren went to Japan to investigate the news and collect funds for running the newspaper in order to establish Shenzhou daily. He met Sun Yat sen in Japan and joined the alliance.

Since 1907 (the second year of Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty), Shenzhou daily and Minli daily have been established successively to actively publicize the democratic revolution.

In the spring of 1912, Yu Youren resigned and returned to Shanghai to continue his newspaper work. After the failure of the "second revolution", Minli newspaper was seized and fled to Japan to fight against yuan.

In October 1922, Yu Youren founded Shanghai University and served as president. In 1924, the Kuomintang held its first National Congress in Guangzhou, and Yu Youren was elected executive member of the Central Committee.

In 1926, together with Feng Yuxiang, Liu Juemin and others, he rescued the siege of Xi'an and became commander in chief in Shaanxi. He served as president of audit and President of supervision of the national government.

In September 1928, he served as the director of the private Nantong University (in November 1930, the private Nantong University was renamed as the private Nantong College).

Since 1929, he has been engaged in the research of cursive script in the past dynasties. In 1932, he initiated the establishment of cursive script Research Society and founded cursive monthly.

In the autumn of 1932, the national Northwest College of agriculture and Forestry (now Northwest University of agriculture and forestry science and Technology) was established.

In 1964, because of political reasons, he became depressed for a long time and died in Taipei.

Main achievements

Patriotic Poems

Looking at the mainland

You Ren Wen Cun

You Ren Shi Shu

Gu Shan BIE Mu

Calligraphy achievements

You Shan Xi Cun;

The style of cursive script in the running script makes the whole work calm and changeable, which is a technique often used by Yu Youren from his early years to his later years. The words "smile, wine, stay, heavy, no, bright, wind, night" in the works are all based on the method of grass. This arrangement is not a deliberate affectation, but a natural expression of his temperament.

In 1932, the cursive monthly was founded;

In 1946, he visited Guangyan Buddhist temple in Jiezi Town, Chongzhou, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, and wrote "Sutra house" after reading Hongwu nanzang;

Integration of "Standard Cursive" thousand characters.

Education serves the country

Founder of Fudan University, Shanghai University and Northwest University of agriculture and forestry science and technology, President of Shanghai University, and director of Fudan University and private Nantong University. One of the important founders of modern higher education in China.

Character evaluation

Liu Yantao: "the secret that the standard cursive script has been published for more than a thousand years is that it has made a general account for the cursive script in the past and opened a new way for the future writing. Its influence should be particularly broad and long-standing!"

"Sir, a pen is better than a hundred thousand muskets"

Liu Yazi: "the great cloth clothes of heaven and earth"

Chen Zuhua: "the wind and snow in the Qing Dynasty are typical in the past."

"There are two styles in the sleeves of thirty meritorious officials, and a box of rare papers."

Chen zhisui: "patriotic, always look at the mainland across the sea; save the people determined to lead the early Zhongshan."

Lin Yutang: "among the contemporary calligraphers, Yu Youren, the president of the Institute of calligraphy, is the best model of his character and calligraphy. His status today depends partly on his calligraphy fame."

Yang Jiping: "Yu Youren's cursive script is the inheritance and strengthening of huaisu Xiaocao. He solved the problem of stelization of Xiaocao." "Yu Youren's cursive script is a pure center pen. His lines are more slender (much more slender than his regular script), and his roundness is just like his regular script. This is obviously the function of Mr. Yu's profound Wei stele foundation. " "The significance of Yu Youren's cursive calligraphy lies in that he was the first one to connect Wei stele with xiaocaoshu, which created a new realm for the study of stele and opened up a new way for later generations, so that later learners of stele avoided many blind explorations and became a great master of stele school calligraphy in the 20th century."

Mr. Li Zhimin, a contemporary calligrapher, pioneer of introducing steles into cursive script and professor of Peking University, highly praised Yu Youren's "strong and profound" cursive script, which can be called a contemporary giant. However, he did not agree with Mr. Yu's standard cursive script. In his opinion, the art of calligraphy has its own law of development, it should be colorful, not uniform. Reading ancient and modern works, also "the most taboo bias in a good and exclusion of beauty.".

Anecdotes and allusions

Running for vice president

In May 1948, the Kuomintang held a national assembly in Nanjing to elect the president and vice president. The KMT yuan Lao Yu You Ren ran for vice president. The main opponent is Li Zongren, a warlord of Guangxi. Before the election, in order to let the deputies understand their thoughts and plans, Yu Youren set up a desk in the house every day, bought four treasures of the study, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and sent the banner of "peace for all generations". At the same time, another long table was set up, with 2000 photos signed by him. Each photo was signed with the name of each representative, which was arranged by province, city, county or occupation, and was picked up by the representatives themselves when they came to the door. The maximum number of people who visit Yu Youren every day is one or two hundred per hour. Most people realize that Mr. Youren uses prestige and a pen as his campaign power.

People running for vice president are very different from Yu Youren. For example, Li Zongren provides each representative with a car, a driver, and several hotels. As long as he is a representative, he can stay in the car, whether he knows or not. Every day, he will have a banquet in the morning and evening, which is free of charge. Sun Ke, the premier, and Cheng Qian, the director of Wuhan Xingyuan, treat each other with wine every day, send souvenirs to the representatives, make promises, and get in touch with each other. Representatives from all over the country are overwhelmed with invitation cards every day. The representatives are God, vice presidential candidates and their colleagues, local Party members, classmates, relatives, and ancestors Try to win votes for yourself. Yu Youren, on the other hand, stayed at home to run for office with a pen and a piece of paper. Some people advised Yu Youren not to "wait for the hare" at home. If you want to go out and walk around, you can find a consortium to borrow money. Yu Youren declined one by one. He told Youhao: I believe in the people, I believe in myself, success or failure depends on the public opinion.

Tomorrow is going to vote. Yu Youren suddenly sent someone to send an invitation to the representatives. He made an impromptu speech to the representatives in the hotel and said: I don't have any money in my family, so it's hard to treat them well. Today, it's my old friend Feng Ziyou and other 20 people who raised money to prepare a little wine for each other. I'm just borrowing wine to treat the guests

The national government election began. The voting system is elimination. On the first day of voting, Mr. Yu Youren got 493 votes and was eliminated. At the end of the election, several representatives found Yu Youren's comfort. Feng Ziyou said with emotion, "can you succeed in running for office with your reputation and pen and ink? The paper bomb can't beat the silver. This social and political corruption depends on money, beautiful women, red wine and cars. How can Yu Lao not fail? The reason for this failure is that we are ignorant of the world. "

The next day, he continued to vote and Yu Youren attended on time. As soon as he entered the meeting hall, he was elegant and magnanimous. All the delegates stood up and applauded for 10 minutes to express their admiration for him. Finally, Sun Ke and Cheng Qian were eliminated one after another. Li Zongren was elected vice president and Chiang Kai Shek was elected president. On May 20, 1948, the inauguration ceremony was held in Nanjing presidential palace.

Although Yu Youren did not become vice president, his image of being poor, honest, upright, elegant and open-minded has left an indelible example for people.

friendship between gentlemen

The most respected talent of the Kuomintang

During the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Mao Zedong was the acting Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, so he got to know many important people at the senior level of the Kuomintang. But he respected Mr. Yu Youren most. He was not only influenced by him in his youth, but also had many contacts with him, such as talking about poetry and CI. In his later years, he also asked his secretary Tian Jiaying for the existing cursive script of Yu Youren.

In his early years, Yu Youren once edited the radical thought "Minli newspaper". Mao Zedong liked to read this newspaper when he was a student. At that time, he knew Yu Youren's name and admired it very much.

In January 1924, the Kuomintang held a meeting with Communists in Guangzhou

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